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Child
Friendly Newspaper Award
&
Best Volunteer Award 2008
Pictures Of
Awards
To encourage the media personnel
and volunteers to handle the issue of child sexual abuse in a more meaningful
way, Sahil conducted it’s fourth Child Friendly Newspaper Award and Best
Volunteer Award 2008. The purpose of this award is to appreciate the
contribution of newspapers on sensitive reporting and its volunteers dealing
with issue and promoting awareness among masses to create profound impact on
society.
This
ceremony was conducted on March 25, 2009 in the hall of National
Library Islamabad.
Chief
Guest of the ceremony was Syed Sumsam Ali Bukhari State Minister for
Information and Broadcasting and Guest of Honor was Mr. M. Z. Sohail,
Director International Relations PTV Islamabad.
In
this ceremony, Sahil also launched its research report
“A Hidden Reality Unveiled: Public Perceptions on Child
Sexual Abuse”.
Two
Puppet shows titled "Choti Choti Baatain" for primary level children
and "Mere dard ko jo zuban milay" for adolescents were also held on
this occasion to create awareness among participants and children about the
issue of CSA and its prevention.
375
participants 60 from media, 150 children from different schools, 17 from
ministry of information and broad casting and 130 people from different
organizations participated in the ceremony including Sahil staff.
The
ceremony offers following objectives:
- To
share the situation of child sexual abuse in Pakistan and preventive
initiates by Sahil.
- To
encourage and appreciate media to unveil social evils and identify the
child protection issues like sexual abuse, exploitation and labor.
- To
sensitize community on the protective issues of the children like health,
education, food, shelter, sexual abuse and exploitation etc.
- To
enable media for the dissemination of information on the issues of child
protection to gain a deeper understanding of the tools at their disposal
to develop a protective environment for children in Pakistan.
- To
allow to have better understanding of the indicators of crimes against
children in the region and discuss various solutions.
- To
contribute on how to use local media in a suitable way and gather the best
practices on media participation for well being of the children.
First
award in national newspapers category was given to Daily Express,
Mr. Iftikhar Chauhdry received this award on the behalf of his
newspaper.
Second
award shield was given to Daily Din Lahore in regional category.
Third
award shield was given to Daily Kaavish Hyderabad in local newspaper
category.
Mr. Mumtaz Bukhari received this award on behalf of his
organization.
The
Best volunteer award for the year 2008 was given to Mr. Hidayat Ullah
Laghari for his contribution towards the issue throughout the year.
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